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Birth and Baptism Certificate of Fronicka Stauffer
1806
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.2 x 39.7 cm (12 11/16 x 15 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.768
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1353, fig. 367 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Births and Baptism Certificates. Baptised in 1872; Anville Township, Lebanon County. Fractur Born 1806, Anville Township, Lebabon County, PA.; daughter of Heinrich and Fronicka. Inscription in red and black ink in small bordered rectangle; large tulip left and right with hanging bunches of grapes; leaves and small tulips in pot lower center; half a geometric star and two flowers at top.
ProvenanceNadelman (Northampton County, PA); to Maxim Karolik (1893-1963, Newport); by whom given to MFA October 11, 1956